Navy Midshipmen - What Was Your Experience in the Navy?

The military likes to think of itself as sort of a color blind maritocracy. Did it feel like that to you, or did you encounter some challenges just because people weren't used to seeing a person of color in the ranks? I was not as alone as one would think in that we had a larger number of african mericans coming into the academy. So that was one two, i didn't run into what i call a lot of blatant raceism, or i didn't slow down enough to look for it,. One white midshipman turned around to me and said, the only reason you're here is because of a quota system. And he was surrounded with some other white